liz: allison deans, senior adviser at varick asset management. point gain at the moment, and we are six minutes from that closing bell as we head into the final moments of trading in 2012, i'm going to tell you the one stock that's riding apple's coat tails today. that's next. ♪ muck. ♪ ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] [ male announcer ] time and sales data. split-second stats. [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ it's so close to the options floor... [ indistinct shouting, bell dinging ] ...you'll bust your brain box. ♪ all onhinkorswim from td amerrade. ♪ liz: okay, the apple halo, and it is cirrus logic, the company that has done beautifulfully thanks to the iphone 5. why? because cirrus enables siri to answer all of your questions, including the stupid ones like, siri, do you want to have sex with me? how many of you done that? up 71% over the past 52 weeks. crus, so as apple ramps up iphone 5 demand and starts to really get that out in the markets, you can see that cirrus logic is doing very nicely today. first of all, happy new year

but this one was created by a guy named eddie varick.e's a bit of an ironman enthusiast, and his girlfriend loves ironman 2, even calls him tony stark when he's working on stuff like this. you see here he created what looks like a perfect replica of the arc reactor. it's not just that piece of equipment. wait until you see what this thing does. you turn this thing on, flip it over and the lights start to spin around and then watch. >> wow! >> no way! >> a little piece slides away, the ring's in there, the ring comes up and, boom, now you're proposing to your girlfriend. >> i love this. >> she was clearly very excited and even crying. >> we've got a picture of eddie and his now fiancee. these two ironman enthusiasts during the whole thing. awesome stuff. >> this is creativity. >> this means that he is smart and that is hot. >> yes, it's hot and he can fix stuff around the house. >> if he can make this, i'm pretty sure he can unclog the garbage disposal. >>> when you go to the atm, you're not really used to having the bank say have a nice

alison deans is with us, senior adviser at varick asset management. nice to see you. happy new year. do you have two plans for 2012, one that includes the fiscal cliff and one that doesn't? how do you prepare for the new year as an investor? >> pretty much. i mean, the outcome, if there is some type of healthy resolution to the fiscal cliff, even if they defer it for a week or two but come up with some healthy resolution, i think it bodes really well for global markets. if we wind up going into fiscal cliff and the world loses any faith in our government to accomplish anything that's helpful or relevant, think that could impact the markets and it could impact the economy. >> there has to be a long-term impact, though. i mean, les face it. any deal that they can come up with is an austerity deal. it will involve some formf tax increases, you would think, and some kind ofin spending cuts on the any. that slows things down. it's not a growth initiative, necessarily. >> it's not a growth initiative although my sense is most of it will be cut backs in government and there